I am the foundation of the Supreme Impersonal Spiritual Being (only aspect of God known to men), who is immortal, inexhaustible, eternal, and who constitutes the very principle of ultimate happiness.
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The Lord said: “The being knows the perfection of spiritual bliss, when, through practice, he succeeds in withdrawing his mind from all material activity. Then, once the mind is purified, it realizes its true identity and tastes the inner joy. In this happy state he enjoys, through his purified senses, an infinite spiritual happiness. This perfection reached, the soul knows that nothing is more precious and will not deviate from the truth, but will remain there imperturbable, even in the midst of the worst difficulties. Such is the true liberation from all the sufferings born from contact with matter”.
The first quality of communion with the Absolute, God, is that it gradually erases from our consciousness any material concept of life. Then, when the being realizes the Supreme Soul, by his mind and his spiritual intelligence, the realized soul, the spiritualist, can experience spiritual ecstasy or spiritual bliss, without ever committing the error which would be to identify himself., as a separate soul, to the Supreme Soul. When he ceases all material activity, the being begins to act on the spiritual level, in the service of the Lord, in Krishna consciousness. He then knows real life, out of all material contamination, out of maya, illusion. Escaping from this impure contact with matter does not imply that the being is destroyed in his original and eternal nature of individual. Absolute spiritual bliss marks true life. The Absolute is, by nature, total bliss. This total, natural bliss inherent in the spiritual being, constitutes the ultimate goal of communion with the Supreme Being, and can be easily acquired through devotional service. As long as we have a material body, we will have to meet its demands; eat, sleep, mate and defend themselves.
The pure being does not lack this rule, but he does so to the extent necessary, without seeking the excitement of the senses. Determined to make good heart against bad luck, he makes the best use of the burden of a material body, and, conscious of God, he enjoys an entirely spiritual happiness in this world. Unwavering in the face of the many vicissitudes of existence, accidents, illnesses, poverty, death of a loved one, he fulfills his duty with constancy and enthusiasm in the consciousness of Krishna.
Nothing excludes it. He is tolerant, because he knows that these sorrows, which endlessly come and go, can in no way affect his service to God. Being so, he attains perfection in communion with the Absolute, Krishna, God, the Supreme Person.